Yesss, coming soon, I am slowly covering all of the crowd system, every node, every workflow, as you can imagine rendering is one of the latest steps 😊. Subscribe for more!

Hey, thank you so much, subscribe for more, it really helps, have a nice day 😊

Sure, you could do that, but you will have some complications: considering you manage to export a file containing the crowd and playback the animation in unreal. You will need to create a system to randomize materials in an effective way and the terrain adaptation will need to be done in houdini, so you would need to export the terrain too. Overall, I would suggest to render in houdini: something quite tricky like crowd is better managed in houdini. Cheers

Hi, thanks for your comment, oh that is a great idea, I was working on an ant simulation in the past, I am sure I can find the file again and make a video on it. If I recall I was using a popnet instead of a crowd system to have some more freedom. Anyway thanks for the suggestion, it will definitely be a topic once we reach a higher complexity in this series! 😊

@@nodeflowhoudini Nice, that would be great if you feel like it some day :) I tried POPs as well, but was missing some of the Crowd tool controls - I guess they are made more for flatter terrains in mind.

Hi and thanks for commenting, usually snow doesn't tend to be so sticky, although I am preparing a new tutorial on this, how to make grains stickier. If you are curious, the workflow would be to create the glue constraints into the vellum solver and connect them into the "Source" output. After defining the 2 groups that should be connected together, play with the settings and make sure to check, Create constraint = "Each Frame". That should be it, thanks!

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Sure I am :)

Oh, that makes lots of sense, yeah sure, like what happens in the copy to point etc... Thanks for the insights, I am happy you enjoyed the tutorial.

Sure, you could do that, but you will have some complications: considering you manage to export a file containing the crowd and playback the animation in unreal. You will need to create a system to randomize materials in an effective way and the terrain adaptation will need to be done in houdini, so you would need to export the terrain too. Overall, I would suggest to render in houdini: something quite tricky like crowd is better managed in houdini. Cheers

Sure, feel free to try it out and if you have any questions, reach out. ♥️

Thanks for your kind words, I am happy you are enjoying the series ♥️

Hi, thanks for commenting, yes sure, we will see how to randomize textures and much more in this series. Regarding exporting, it can be a little tricky, if possible I would render in houdini even with mantra, arnold or solaris. We will see how to do that too. Hope this helped 😊

Thank you 🙏

That would be perfect

Absolutely, I will talk about ragdolls in the next videos, the next one will be on crowd layers and randomization, then we will talk abot terrain adaptation and then about ragdolls 😊

Thank uuu ♥️

Thank you so much!! 🧡

Thanks my friend, absolutely, karma and XPU are the future of rendering. This and unreal engine!!

I appreciate that, thanks for the kind words 🧡

I agree, I am on a mission to make more free Houdini learning videos for everyone to enjoy. Thanks for your comment 🧡

Thank you so much, amazing, feel free to share your progress, and if you have any questions, find me on Insta: mario.exr ♥️

Super happy this helped you, more crowd turorials are coming 😊

Hi and thanks for the kind words, I will add this to my list!!

Hi, thanks so much for the comment, I am very happy to hear that you have some previous experience with crowds and that you enjoyed the video. Yes this new system is amazing, and to answer your question, YES, in the next tutorials I'll show you exactly how to do that, for now I am using the MocapBiped3 only to make it simple to follow. Subscribe for more 🧡

Yes, absolutely, vellum has been introduced in Houdini 17 while karma in Houdini 19. Anyway I would suggest to follow the tutorial using Houdini 20 😊. Hope this helps

@nodeflowhoudini Thanks mate..And good Tutorials you got keep it going 🤜🤛

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Yessss, hahahah. I am happy you are enjoying the series 😊

Thanks!!

Thank you for watching the videos 😊, subscribe for more!!

Thank youu, I have a ryzen 5900x and a 3080.

Hi, if you check the video, I have explained what it does, there is also a little pop up from the bottom clarifying. Anyway, this nodes converts the points to a volume. It's not like meshing. Hope it helped

@@nodeflowhoudini Hahaha I can imagine your face : "I explain everything, I even create little boxes, but he still asks why oh my god..." hahaha. Bro your tutorial is very clear and your little boxes are perfect! It's my brain which is slow, sorry. My question was more on the esthetic side : you create a volume for the snow to actually look good, right? You got a new sub, by the way. Thanks again!

Naaah, don't worry at all hahahah. To answer your question, yes using a volume can lead to more interesting results, it's just one of the possible ways of rendering snow. This method is particularly useful for large scale snow simulations, like an avalanche, where the snow tends to behave more like a volume then like a mesh. Thanks for commenting 😊

Thanks, regarding MPM it is not necessarily about the control you get but more about the ease of use and the presets that get you 80% there already. I am considering making a series on MPM too. Thanks for commenting, Subscribe for more ♥️!!

Hi and thanks for commenting, to my knowledge is common to render snow as a volume. But you could use the particle fluid surface SOP and convert it to geo, although I cannot assure you it will look in the same way, you will probably need some subsurface and experiment a little more in shading. Hope this helps ❤

Hey, thank you so much. Absolutely, I understand you concern, to my understanding you could calculate the gradient of the volume using the vdb analysis SOP and then create a custom shader to add reflection to the volume using the gradient as input. Although I have never done it yet, I have seen other videos explaining the same concept and applying it for mantra. The concept would be the same and you could play with a pre-made whitewater shader or make a custom one and still render with karma. I hope this helps, I am still in the process of understanding the reflection side of a volume, as usually is not really needed for smoke, explosions etc... thank you!!

Thanks a lot, will do! ♥️

I really appreciate your words, I have seen so many tutorials, like most of us and I have also wasted a lot of time. With this channel I am trying to communicate clearly, without so many gaps of me saying nothing and keeping it short and easy to follow. It is not the easiest because this requires lots of small edits in post but it's worth it. ♥️

Yes you could, but using Mantra you will be limited in performances, great render by the way, but for this series we are using karma! Also using the normals for reflection is a nice trick but the proper volume reflection in shading is a more advanced topic. To sum it up I chose karma over mantra because it's faster more efficient and more subject to updates and "in studio" implementation, and I chose the "XPU pyro material" because it's a simple way to get nice results without faking reflections or diving in the complex realm of volume reflection shaders... I hope it helped 😀

@@nodeflowhoudini I am very interested in how to achieve a specular volume shader in XPU. if you can figure it out you'd be doing the community a huge favour! so many posts on the sidefx forums looking for an answer to this problem

You are right, it's a pretty well known issue. From a teoretical standpoint it should be done in the same way used for mantra, but rest assured, I will experiment in solaris, and once I have it I will post it here. Thank you for the interest and for the comment, subscribe for more ♥️

Heyy, thank you so much, subscribe for more 😃❤

Thanks a ton, yes I remember struggling to find a good video about snow shading in Solaris, that's one of the reasons I created this one!! Subscribe for more :)

Thank you for the kind words, yesss, vellum can be pretty fun. I am really enjoying creating this series ♥️

@@nodeflowhoudini I am happy you are enjoying making these

Hi, and thanks so much for your comment! Absolutely, I'm planning a full human cloth simulation for the final videos in this Vellum series. I’m gradually ramping up the difficulty, so stay tuned, the human cloth sim is coming soon! ❤️

@@nodeflowhoudini thanks a lot!!

@Lucas3dlm Heey, thanks for the kind words, check the "Vellum 4", if you haven't, you might enjoy that one as well. Vellum 5 it's on its way ♥️